📣 The 2024-2025 edition of the Odysseus Network Executive Master on EU migration and asylum law is open for applications.

Including the free access to the 2024 Summer School to the participants who register to the Executive Master before the 1st of July!

The closing date for…

Statewatch Analysis: The politics behind the EU-Mauritania migration partnership
statewatch.org/outsourcing-bo…

I'm hearing disturbing reports that students face suspension if they don’t end their peaceful protests in #Columbiauniversity in the USA. This is a clear violation of their right to peaceful assembly

Excited for this workshop happening next week and looking forward to discussing how to strengthen collaboration between practitioners and academics working on refugees' and migrants' rights under the ECHR!

The event is fully booked but there is a waitlist!

Job!!📢📢
Calling all political theorists. School of Politics & IR at Queen Mary is looking to recruit a new permanent lecturer, deadline 26 May. Further details ⬇️

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ467/lec…

We wrote to Ylva Johansson and Margaritis Schinas to express our serious concerns over #Cyprus suspending all asylum procedures for Syrians after arrivals from #Lebanon . This is a violation of the right to #asylum ! European Commission must act for Cyprus to revoke this decision immediately.

join and say #IStandWithNadera with Queen Mary Palestine Solidarity

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@QMUL's silence and inaction is unconscionable: theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

En route to the Hague/Tweede Kamer & a roundtable on #migration deals to contribute on funding, rights & co-development Law in Maastricht MCEL Globalization and Law Network MACIMIDE Odysseus Network ENSURED Dr. Annick Pijnenburg @[email protected] Violeta Moreno-Lax Andreina De Leo

👨‍🎓 4 of our academic departments are looking for new academic assistants!

💪 AAs are cornerstones of our academic life. They orchestrate the lives of departments, assist professors, & support students. A diverse & rewarding position!

ℹ More info here: lnkd.in/dN8fbCa9

Europe’s xenophobic politics ignore coming economic decline. Millions of skilled jobs go unfilled but ½ of educated migrants work below their skill level. @LHReports Financial Times EL PAÍS Unbias the News used newly accessible data to investigate brain waste lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

BREAKING: The court in Trapani 🇮🇹 dropped the charges against iuventa-crew and other civilian organizations! They were accused of “facilitating irregular entry” of migrants into Italy and faced up to 20 years in prison - for saving lives at sea.👉 ecchr.eu/en/case/sea-re…

The ECtHR ruled today that the conditions on the Greek 'Hotspots' Chios, Kos and Samos constitute inhuman or degrading treatment for three people.
The judgment is also significant with regard to the CEAS reform: it clarifies the inalienability of human rights. A thread (1/6)

Breaking news: Palestinian professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been arrested for 'suspicion of incitement.' Jerusalem's Hebrew University suspended her last month after she said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. She told Democracy Now! her personal safety was at risk.

Can the EU freely decide what conduct to criminalize, even if it includes humanitarian action?

Violeta Moreno-Lax argues that it cannot for there are legitimacy based limits to the increasing criminalization of humanitarianism.

verfassungsblog.de/solidarity-cri…

With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

Many comments have been written on the ECtHR‘s climate cases. This is another one. Most interesting though😉

🔔Join us ‼️(B)OrderS Event shorturl.at/jlprF 17 March 4pm UK💡 #HumanRightsDefenders ' access & protection in #EU w/ Elspeth Guild (QMUL School of Law) Niovi Vavoula (@ResearchLux) Ed O’Donovan (@MaryLawlorhrds) Tamas Molnar (@EURightsAgency) Register shorturl.at/ivLT4👇

(B)OrderS Discussion on Human Rights Defenders - happening tomorrow (online): join us by registering here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/borders-and-…

Leaked documents suggest UK is targeting four countries for Rwanda-style cash for refugees deal: Armenia, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Botswana.

thetimes.co.uk/article/477176…